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(Crowd cheering and clapping hands...)

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Thank you.....

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Crowd cheering continues...

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Thank you....

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Thank you so much..

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Thank you..

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To ........................ and the Mandela family..

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To President Zuma and the members of the government,

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to heads of states and goverment, past and present,distinguished guests..

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It is a singular honour to be with you today to celebrate a life like no other.

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To the people of South Africa,... ( Crowd cheering)

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people of every ways and every walk of life, the world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us.

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His struggle was your struggle. His triumph was your triumph.

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Your dignity and your hope found expression in his life and your freedom, your democracy is his cherished legacy.

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It is hard to eulogize any man, to capture words, not just the facts and the dates that make a life but the essential truth of a person,

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your private joys and sorrows, the quiet moments and the unique qualities that illuminates someones soul.

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how much harder to do so for a giant of his .....who moved the nation towards justice

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and in the process moved billions around the world.

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Born during world war I, fired from the quarters of power, a boy raised by the cattle and the tutored by.................

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But if I would emerge as the last great liberator of the 20th century,like I knew he would lead a resistance movement,

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a movement that at it start had little prospect for success.

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Like Dr King, he would give potent voice to the claims of the oppressed and the moral necessity of racial justice.

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He would not do a brutal imprisonment that began in the time of Kennedy and khrushchev and reached the final days of the cold war.

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Emerging from the prison without the force of arms he would, like Abraham Lincoln hold this country together ...........break apart.

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and like America's founding fathers, he would erect a constitutional order to preserve freedom for future generations.

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A commitment to the democracy and rule of law, ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power after only one term.

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( crowd cheeing... continues)

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Given the sweep of his life, the scope of his accomplishments,the adoration that he is .......earlier,

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it is tempting I think to remember Nelson Mandela as an icon, smiling and serene,

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detached from the tawdry affairs of lesser men but my .....himself strongly persistant such a lifeless fortune.

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(Crowd cheering.......)

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Instead, Mandela insisted on sharing with us his doubts and his fears, his miscalculations along with his victories